Louisiana News

St. Paul police say a man charged with shooting a 14-year-old boy on Fourth of July night has been arrested near New Orleans.

BATON ROUGE - Louisiana movie industry officials applauded Thursday the signing into law of legislation designed to help the state regain prominence as a premier location for making movies.

Despite calls for a veto, Gov. Bobby Jindal will allow the broadening of an exception to a $50 cap on lobbyists' wining and dining of lawmakers and other public officials.

A suspect is dead after a routine traffic stop that was caught on the police car's dash camera.

ANTHONY JUAN WALKER, age 27, a resident of Tarrytown, New York, pled guilty in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier to federal financial aid fraud, announced U. S. Attorney Jim Letten.

St. TAMMANY, LA -- An Alabama woman has been charged with helping four inmates escape from Louisiana's St.

Gov. Bobby Jindal kicked off a summer-long "working tour" of Louisiana's parishes Wednesday by touting his administration's efforts to create jobs through industry incentives, tax breaks and job-training programs that are tailored to companies' needs.

The Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum Foundation will induct seven people, two posthumously, into the Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame in programs Friday at Angola and Baton Rouge.

An Alabama woman has been arrested on allegations of sneaking hacksaw blades into the St.

Near the end of a daylong drive from New Orleans to Broadneck High School, a caravan of four passenger vans got stuck in Beltway traffic.

BATON ROUGE - A new state law seeks to curb a growing trend of small communities annexing property along interstate highways and padding their budgets by posting police cars to catch speeders.

Louisiana lawmakers have offered Hollywood a gift, hoping that studios will continue to send in film crews to make moves and to pump money into the state's economy.

NEW ORLEANS - The celebration of black music and culture at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans will provide comfort to artists and fans alike after a tough week following Michael Jackson's death.

Louisiana Detective Kara Gillian has two problems on her hands: A serial killer is plaguing the town of Beaulac on the north shore of New Orleans and the wrong creature appears during a routine demonic 'summoning' in Diana Rowland's debut novel, Mark of the Demon .

Gov. Bobby Jindal signed two bills Thursday that aim to reduce Louisiana's school dropout rate by lowering educational standards and creating a new "career track" high school diploma.

Lafourche Parish officials have decided against banning private fireworks displays this Fourth of July weekend.

Two attorneys have been charged with engaging in a scheme to pay a Louisiana judge for orders that allowed prisoners to be freed from custody.

The federal Department of Health and Hospitals is giving Louisiana $411.7 million in Recovery Act grants to 24 community health centers around Louisiana.

Some construction projects mean several lanes still will have to be closed over the 4th of July holiday.

Louisiana got some welcome rain this week, but farmers were still worrying about vulnerable crops in drought conditions that even threatened to cancel their Fourth of July fireworks displays.